Espionage and Intelligence | Intelligence Gathering to Prevent Economic Espionage Violates Civil Liberties

About the author: Andrew Grosso is an attorney in Washington, D.C., and serves as chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Committee on Law and Computer Technology.

In order to protect homegrown secrets from foreign competitors, the U.S. Congress concocted the EEA, a cause of broad concern on the domestic front.

In 1996 the U.S. Congress passed the Economic Espionage Act (EEA). Viewed simply, the EEA criminalizes the theft of confidential business information. However, when dealing with information, few things involving criminalization are simple, and...

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